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David R. Todd’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation, and on client counseling matters requiring expertise in intellectual property law, including analyses of patent infringement and validity. He has participated as counsel in over 25 patent appeals at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and in a number of intellectual property actions in federal trial courts and at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Mr. Todd served from 1997-1998 as a law clerk to the Honorable Randall R. Rader at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which resolves patent appeals from all U.S. district courts as well as all appeals from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Todd has participated in authoring a number of publications on patent law issues, has lectured on intellectual property issues, and currently serves as an adjunct professor of law at Brigham Young University where he has taught courses in patent law and intellectual property litigation. He has also served as an author of amicus briefs filed on behalf of the American Intellectual Property Law Association in cases pending before the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit.

David R. Todd, “In re Tam: Federal Circuit Rules That First Amendment Requires Federal Government To Allow Registration of Disparaging Trademarks,” posted on www.wnlaw.com on January 19, 2016

David R. Todd, “En Banc Federal Circuit Holds That Laches Will Still Limit Pre-Complaint Damages In Patent Cases And May Now Even Limit Permanent Injunctive Relief,” posted on www.wnlaw.com on September 28, 2015

David R. Todd, “Supreme Court Rules That Aereo’s Real-Time Streaming of Over-the-Air Television Constitutes a Public Performance of Copyrighted Works,” posted on www.wnlaw.com on June 30, 2014

David R. Todd, “Supreme Court Holds That Methods and Systems Providing “Generic Computer Implementation” of ‘Intermediated Settlement’ Are Not Eligible For Patenting,” posted on www.wnlaw.com on June 20, 2014

David R. Todd, “Supreme Court Chooses Middle Ground in Formulating A Standard for Patent Claim Definiteness,” posted on www.wnlaw.com on June 6, 2014

David R. Todd, “Supreme Court Limits Laches as a Defense in Copyright Infringement Suits,” posted on www.wnlaw.com on May 20, 2014